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SHOW STAND.

PatentedApr. 5, 1887.

I WITNESS-E5- |NVENTUF' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE...

JOSEPH R. PALMENBERG, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SHOW-STAN D.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 360,463, dated April 5, 1887.

Application filed January 3, 1887. Serial No. 2: 286.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JosEPH It. PALMEN- BERG, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Show-Stand, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a stand for exhibiting shoes or other goods; and it relates more particularly to the joint by which the.displaying-frame is connected to the upright.

The invention consists in the various features of improvement hereinafter more fullypoint ed out.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved show-stand. Fig. 2 is a detailed perspective view of the joint, and Fig. 3 is a similar view of a section thereof.

The letter a represents an upright supported on a base, I), and surrounded at its top by a tubular socket, 0, closed at its upper end and provided with a set-screw, so that it may be revolved 011 upright a and clamped in any desired position.

The socket c carries a cross-bar, (Z, which supports an arch, 6, provided at one side with a number of indentations, as shown. From the center of bar (Z there projects upwardly a lug, f, to which there is pivoted afork, g, having a tubular head, h, and straddling arch 0. One shank of fork g is perforated for the admission of a screw, 1', the inner end of which is in line with the indentations of arch 0. Thus y it will be seen that by loosening screw t" the fork g may be revolved around its pivot to assume any desired inclination, after which it may belocked in place by tightening screw 2', and causing its end to engage one of the indentations of arch 0. Through the tube h there passes a rod, j, from which there projects lat- (Xo model.)

erally a number of cross-barsja, that are connected to rod j by crossshaped joints Z, as shown.

Each cross-bar 7t supports the fixtures m, upon which the goods to be displayed are placed. Thesefixtures are free to slide on the bars 7c, and their inclination may be adjusted when the screws n,by which they are held in place, are loosened.

A show-stand, as above described, may be provided with two uprights, in place of with only one such upright. Its advantage is principally the simplicity of the joint and the ease with which it can be adjusted to any inclination. I

What I claim is '1. The combination of the upright a with socket c at its upper end, carrying perforated lug fand arch e, rising from the cross-bar d, and with the fork g, straddling the arch c and pivoted to the said lug, and having the integral tubular head h, through which passes rod j, and the set-screw 17, passing through one of the branches of the fork and adapted to enter the indentations in the arch, substantially as specified.

2. In a display-frame, the combination,with the upright, of the sockethaviug a perforated lug at its upper end and indented arch rising above the lug, the fork having an integral tubular head provided with a screw-tapped aperture, a screw passing through one of the branches of the fork for adjnstably securing the same to the arch, a rod passing through the tubular head,cruciform sockets on the said rod, and arms extending from the said sockets, substantially as specified.

J. R. PALMENBERG.

\Vitnesses:

F. v. Bnrnsnn, ALFRED J ONGHMANS. 

